Top 22 Serpico Quotes
#1. Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector
Frank Serpico
#2. Everything is connected to everything else.
T.A. Barron
#3. The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers.
Frank Serpico
#4. The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
Frank Serpico
#6. Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.
Frank Serpico
#7. She was a great cook, but she cooked more for herself than for other people, not because she was hungry but because she was comforted by the rituals of the kitchen.
Ruth Reichl
#8. I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.
Ornella Muti
#9. Ninety-nine percent of the people on the street will lick the flavor right off your Life Saver if you let them.
James Altucher
#10. If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#11. I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important.
Frank Serpico
#14. It is not in the nature of man to bear the cross, to love the cross, to keep under the body and to bring it into subjection, to fly from honours, to bear reproaches meekly, to despise self and desire to be despised, to bear all adversities and losses, and to desire no prosperity in this world.
Thomas A Kempis
#15. My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles, from derelict to a doctor, and my life often depended on my performance.
Frank Serpico
#16. The reality is that we do not wash our own laundry - it just gets dirtier.
Frank Serpico
#17. The big difference between animal liberation activists and other so-called 'terrorists' is the targets; no innocent victims are ever targeted in animal lib campaigns. If you are not abusing and exploiting animals, there is no need to fear for one's safety.
Jerry Vlasak
#18. With so much money riding on reported numbers, human nature is to manipulate them. And with so many doing it, you get Serpico effects, where everyone rationalizes that it's okay because everyone else is doing it. It is always thus.
Charlie Munger
#19. I sure didn't want to try to take a ride on that pony only to find out he had no more get up and go.
Tara West
#20. An honest cop still can't find a place to go and complain without fear of recrimination. The blue wall will always be there because the system supports it.
Frank Serpico
#21. There is a false saying: "How can someone who can't save himself save others?" Supposing I have the key to your chains, why should your lock and my lock be the same?
Frederic Nietzsche
#22. I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'
Frank Serpico